but written in Bengali +CHENNAI: Singing of Vande Mataram in schools, government offices private entities and industries in Tamil Nadu has been made compulsory by the Madras high court. Noting that the song can also be played in other government and private establishments at least once in a month, the judge said, "If people feel it is difficult to sing the song in Bengali or in Sanskrit, steps can be taken to translate the song in Tamil. But the minimum eligibility mark was fixed as 90 due to which he lost the opportunity of getting recruited to the post.Subsequently, he found out that he lost the one mark required for his selection, as he answered Bengali for the question on the language of 'Vande Mataram'. But claiming that he had read in many books where it was categorically given that the song was originally written in Bengali, he alleged that TRB had made a mistake in the answer key to the test by mentioning that the right answer as Sanskrit. On July 13, when the plea came up for hearing the AG clarified that the original language of 'Vande Mataram' was Sanskritscript.The judge said the government must include Veeramani in the teacher selection process.

Source: Times of India July 25, 2017 06:29 UTC